Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jun 2017
Interview
Attended hiring event at Microsoft. Had a telephonic screening prior to the Onsite interviews. Onsite had 4 rounds of technical interviews with managers from various teams. Each round had a coding question(Leet code easy+ medium). Overall interviews were very easy compared to Google/Facebook.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Roorkee) in Aug 2016
Interview
Process was fairly simple with three rounds in total.
First one was an online coding round having simple yet dicy problems designed to test your corner case handling.
Second round was Group Fly involving paper and pen coding and final was in person interviews
I applied in-person. I interviewed at Microsoft (Herzliya) in Jul 2017
Interview
I've been asked to tell about projects that I had in my previous job. I described the problems that I had and how I solved them. Later, the interviewer asked me some technical questions and we discussed about my solution complexity. I got answer few minutes after the interview.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
The famus 2D maze riddle. 2D array with "1" and "0". starting from (0,0) - find the path of "0" to (n,n).